{"id":15254,"date":"2018-03-08T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/03\/08\/a-pitch-for-getting-girls-in-the-game\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:06:30","slug":"a-pitch-for-getting-girls-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-pitch-for-getting-girls-in-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pitch For Getting Girls In The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For thousands of female athletes whose sport of choice is baseball, there are few professional options. There is a national women’s team<\/a>, and a handful of women have competed at the minor league level<\/a>. But a female player in Major League Baseball still remains the stuff of Hollywood fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that won’t be true for much longer, if some very vocal activists have anything to do with it. Baseball For All<\/a> is a non-profit that encourages girls to participate in America’s favorite pastime and \u201cempowers girls to break stereotypes, be themselves, and to follow their dreams.\u201d The cause they champion is part of a growing movement to even the playing field \u2014 literally \u2014 when it comes to baseball.<\/p>\n

We talk about how women have been systematically shut out of the game, the efforts to address discrimination against female baseball players and why softball isn’t baseball.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2018-03-08\/a-pitch-for-getting-girls-in-the-game?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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For thousands of female athletes whose sport of choice is baseball, there are few professional options. There is a national women’s team<\/a>, and a handful of women have competed at the minor league level<\/a>. But a female player in Major League Baseball still remains the stuff of Hollywood fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that won’t be true for much longer, if some very vocal activists have anything to do with it. Baseball For All<\/a> is a non-profit that encourages girls to participate in America’s favorite pastime and \u201cempowers girls to break stereotypes, be themselves, and to follow their dreams.\u201d The cause they champion is part of a growing movement to even the playing field \u2014 literally \u2014 when it comes to baseball.<\/p>\n

We talk about how women have been systematically shut out of the game, the efforts to address discrimination against female baseball players and why softball isn’t baseball.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}